INDEX. 



for, 4G7; brittle straw of, 479; crop in Canada, 



555 ; trade in . 

 Wheel, ancient spinning 

 Whitewash . 

 Windmill, a new . 

 Windows, stop cracks about 

 AVit'e, the way to make her cheerful, 08 



the farmer's 

 Willow for osiers . 

 Wine, currant, 409 ; grape 

 Witch, hazel, 135; test 

 Wood, green 

 AVorld, the, how made . 

 Worms, winter, 213; palmer 



berry, 311; an army of, 3 



canker 



honor to 



437. 



244; silk and mul- 

 24; rearing silk, 382; 

 . 340, 3G3, 



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Brown's Improved Patent Grist Mill 

 556 South Down Sheep 

 184[Chapin's Portable Cider Mill . 

 2781 Nichols' Patent Corn and Cob Crusher and 

 414 1 verizer ..... 

 3941 Simple and Cheap Stump Puller 



Plan for Breaking Colts 

 456 A New Apple .... 



42 A Weather Vane .... 

 463 Tolman's Sweet Apple . 

 351 McGregor's Patent Portable Furnace 



43 Windmills, Improved Governor for 

 300 Emery's Sawmill .... 



Y. 



Year, the new .... 



Youth, training to a wrong occupation 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



The Winter Nelis Pear . 



Short Horn, or Durham Heifers 



Pruning Grape Vines 



Danvers Winter Sweet Apple 



A Modern SuSblk Stallion 



Pruning a Peach-tree 



A Model Poultry House 



Baccillaria Navicula (Infusoria;) 



Garden Work 



Batchelder's Corn Planter 



Wells' Patent Grass Seed Sower 



The Concord Grape 



The Steel Double Plow . 



Village Homestead as it is — unimproved 



Village Homestead as it should be — improved 



Ketchum's Mowing Machine . 



The Sewing Machine 



The Horse Hoe 



An Improved Hinge Harrow . 



A Plant Protector . 



The Grain Drill 



Homestead of the Thriftless Farmer 



Homestead of the Thrifty Farmer . 



Expanding and Keversiblo Tooth Cultivator 



French Merino Buck, " Old Tiger " 



The Andrews Pear 



The Post Augur .... 



Cow Milker's Assistant . 



Expanding and Reversible Harrow 



A Garden and Fire Engine 



Dog Power-Churning 



The Robin ..... 



Hickok's Patent Improved Cider Mill 



Summer Rose Apple 



The Early Strawberry Apple 



388 



11 

 413 



Pul- 



17 

 33 

 49 

 65 

 81 

 97 

 113 

 118 

 129 

 145 

 159 

 161 

 177 

 194 

 209 i 

 225 [ 

 235j 

 240 

 245 

 254 

 257 

 272 

 273 

 288 

 321 

 337 

 330 

 353 

 369 

 385 

 385 

 401 

 417 

 433 

 433 



POETRY 



The Forest Trees . 

 A Home Picture . 

 The Maize — A New Corn Song 

 The Old Washerwoman . 

 To Farmers . 

 The Good Old Plow 

 The Ass and the Lamb 

 Trade and Spade . 

 Kings of the Soil . 

 Birds of New England 

 The Laborer and the Warrior 

 The Bee and the Cricket 

 The Seasons . 

 Song for the Seasons 

 The Plowman's Song 

 Farmer's Girls 

 Go Forth into the Country 

 Speak Soothing Words and Kind 

 The Child and the Flower 

 Chimes for the Times 

 The Poor Man's May . 

 The Voice of the Grass . 

 A Shower 

 A Ray of Light . 

 Jonathan Slow ; or, Faith, Ho 

 [The Seer 

 j The Nights . 

 j An Elegant Ballad 

 The Farmer's Song 

 Think of Me. 

 The Kanzas Emigrant . 

 j Signs of Foul Weather . 

 I A Farmer's Wife I'll Be 

 Verses for the year 1900 

 Song of the Farmer 

 Bless (Jod for Rain 

 ! A Song of the Railroad , 

 [It Isn't All in Bringing 

 j Let Me In 

 (The Harvest Hymn 

 [ Love's Fairy Ring 

 The Pumpkin 

 Gems . 

 [ Evening 

 Lady Jane . . 



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